| 1 | RELEASE NOTES |
| 2 | FreeBSD |
| 3 | Release 1.0 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | 1. Technical overview |
| 6 | --------------------- |
| 7 | |
| 8 | FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.3 (+4.4 enhancements) BSD |
| 9 | release for Intel i386/i486 (or compatable) based PC's. It is based |
| 10 | heavily on Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 0.1, with additions from "the patchkit", |
| 11 | NetBSD, CSRG, and the Free Software Foundation. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Many hundreds of bugs from the 386BSD 0.1 distribution were fixed, |
| 14 | and many out-of-date pieces of software were upgraded to their current |
| 15 | releases in the GAMMA distribution. This 1.0 distribution fixes |
| 16 | many of the first-run problems our GAMMA and EPSILON users reported back |
| 17 | to us. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 1.3, xview 3.2, elm, nntp, |
| 20 | mh and dozens of other miscellaneous utilities have been ported and |
| 21 | are now available as add-ons. See then next section of this document |
| 22 | for more details. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | For a list of contributors, please see the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD", |
| 25 | which should be bundled with your distribution. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its |
| 28 | being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package |
| 29 | to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that |
| 30 | contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxilliary packages |
| 31 | provided separately can be used by anyone. Work is in progress to |
| 32 | provide a freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable European distribution |
| 33 | of DES for our non U.S. users. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | |
| 36 | 2. Supported Configurations |
| 37 | --------------------------- |
| 38 | |
| 39 | FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA and EISA bus based |
| 40 | PC's, ranging from 386sx to 486 class machines (though the 386sx is |
| 41 | not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, |
| 42 | various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and |
| 45 | ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may |
| 46 | very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of |
| 47 | this. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | |
| 50 | 2.1. Disk Controllers |
| 51 | |
| 52 | WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) |
| 53 | WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller as long as you have |
| 56 | less than 16MB of memory. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Buslogic 545S. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Bustec 742A. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode as long as |
| 65 | you have less than 16MB of memory. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Ultra Store 14F and 34F. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for |
| 70 | SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including |
| 71 | DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM |
| 72 | inteface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently |
| 73 | attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM |
| 74 | interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | |
| 77 | 2.2. Ethernet cards |
| 78 | |
| 79 | SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, |
| 80 | WD8003EBT, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Isolink 4110 (8 bit) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Novell NE1000 and NE2000 ethernet interface. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II |
| 89 | |
| 90 | |
| 91 | 2.3. Misc |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Various 2 and 4 port serial/parallel cards. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Mitsumi CDROM interface and drive. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but |
| 98 | support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted |
| 99 | as they develop. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | |
| 102 | 3. Obtaining FreeBSD. |
| 103 | --------------------- |
| 104 | |
| 105 | You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: |
| 106 | |
| 107 | 1. FTP/Mail |
| 108 | |
| 109 | You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from |
| 110 | `freebsd.cdrom.com' - the offical FreeBSD release site. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | The FreeBSD software is being mirrored at the following locations: |
| 113 | |
| 114 | Country Site/Directory |
| 115 | ======= ===================================================== |
| 116 | |
| 117 | Austria ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD |
| 118 | Germany ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD |
| 119 | Germany ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD |
| 120 | Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD |
| 121 | |
| 122 | |
| 123 | If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your |
| 124 | only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to |
| 125 | `ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message |
| 126 | to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com. |
| 127 | Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* |
| 128 | through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST |
| 129 | resort! |
| 130 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | 2. CDROM |
| 133 | |
| 134 | FreeBSD may be ordered on CDROM from: |
| 135 | |
| 136 | Walnut Creek CDROM |
| 137 | 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D |
| 138 | Concord CA 94520 |
| 139 | 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) |
| 140 | |
| 141 | Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com. There current catalog can |
| 142 | be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada, |
| 145 | or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American |
| 146 | Express, and ship COD to the United States. California residents please |
| 147 | add 8.25% sales tax. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an |
| 150 | unconditional return policy. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD, |
| 153 | you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for |
| 154 | more information. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | |
| 157 | 3. 1/4" Tape, 4mm DAT, floppy |
| 158 | |
| 159 | Winning Strategies, Inc. 61 Crestwood Drive #18, Daly City, CA 94015 |
| 160 | <jtc@wimsey.com> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | 3.5" & 5.25" floppies $200.00 |
| 163 | Contains "core" FreeBSD. |
| 164 | Shipping - add $15 for U.S. and Canada, $25 for overseas. |
| 165 | |
| 166 | 150MB QIC tape $100.00 |
| 167 | Contains "core" FreeBSD + XFree86. |
| 168 | Choice of either 3.5" or 5.25" boot floppies. |
| 169 | Shipping - add $10 for U.S. and Canada, $30 for overseas. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | DAT & Exabyte tapes $100.00 |
| 172 | Contains everything on the Walnut Creek CD ROM. |
| 173 | Choice of either 3.5" or 5.25" boot floppies. |
| 174 | Shipping - same as for QIC tape. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | All packages contain printed copies of the release and installation notes. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | Visa, Mastercard, U.S. $ Money Orders, or U.S. $ checks drawn on a |
| 179 | U.S. bank accepted for payment. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 | It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD" |
| 183 | is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money |
| 184 | from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply |
| 185 | provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get |
| 186 | their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it |
| 187 | is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are). |
| 188 | |
| 189 | |
| 190 | 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. |
| 191 | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| 192 | |
| 193 | Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always |
| 194 | valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find |
| 195 | (preferably with a fix attached if you can!). |
| 196 | |
| 197 | The prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet |
| 198 | mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. Bug reports will be |
| 199 | dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure |
| 200 | that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as |
| 201 | possible. |
| 202 | |
| 203 | If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to |
| 204 | submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: |
| 205 | |
| 206 | FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com |
| 207 | |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: |
| 210 | |
| 211 | FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com |
| 212 | |
| 213 | Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have |
| 214 | extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements |
| 215 | to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us |
| 216 | on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: |
| 217 | |
| 218 | FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com |
| 219 | |
| 220 | All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to |
| 221 | do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com and include the keyword |
| 222 | `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This |
| 223 | will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing |
| 224 | archives, etc. |
| 225 | |
| 226 | |
| 227 | 5. Acknowledgements |
| 228 | ------------------- |
| 229 | |
| 230 | FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not |
| 231 | hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very |
| 232 | hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not |
| 233 | impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but |
| 234 | nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your |
| 235 | name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely |
| 236 | accidental. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | |
| 239 | The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | The FreeBSD "core" group: |
| 244 | |
| 245 | J.T. Conklin |
| 246 | David Greenman |
| 247 | Rodney W. Grimes |
| 248 | Jordan K. Hubbard |
| 249 | Scott Mace |
| 250 | Andrew Moore |
| 251 | Rich Murphey |
| 252 | Paul Richards |
| 253 | Christoph Robitschko |
| 254 | Andreas Schulz |
| 255 | Nate Williams |
| 256 | |
| 257 | |
| 258 | Special mention to: |
| 259 | |
| 260 | Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of Walnut Creek CDROM, without |
| 261 | whose help (and continuing support) this release would never |
| 262 | have been possible. |
| 263 | |
| 264 | Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM |
| 265 | drive. |
| 266 | |
| 267 | The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary. |
| 268 | |
| 269 | Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: |
| 270 | |
| 271 | Gary Browing Jon Cargille |
| 272 | Chris Demetriou Julian Elischer |
| 273 | Bruce Evans Sean Eric Fagan |
| 274 | Guy Helmer Terry Lambert |
| 275 | Gary Moyer Jaye Mathisen |
| 276 | L Jonas Olsson Chris Provenzano |
| 277 | Dave Rivers Guido van Rooij |
| 278 | Steven Wallace Rick Weldon |
| 279 | Terry Williams Garrett Wollman |
| 280 | |
| 281 | And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 | Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely |
| 285 | hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! |
| 286 | |
| 287 | |
| 288 | The FreeBSD Core Group |
| 289 | |
| 290 | $Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.14 1993/10/16 12:02:43 rgrimes Exp $ |